Definition of "suffuse"

suffuse

/səˈfjuːz/

verb
third-person singular simple present suffuses, present participle suffusing, simple past and past participle suffused
1. (transitive) To spread through or over something, especially as a liquid, colour or light; to bathe.
2. (transitive, figuratively) To spread through or over in the manner of a liquid.
  Quotations
  His newest work, The Beach Bum, shares a gauzy neon aesthetic and Florida setting with Spring Breakers, and it’s marked by the usual plethora of drug use, free love, and pirate’s-life-for-me lawlessness that suffuses every Korine movie.
  2019 March 28, David Sims, “A Portrait of the Artist as a Perpetually Stoned Beach Bum”, in The Atlantic‎
3. (transitive) To pour underneath.
adjective
comparative more suffuse, superlative most suffuse
1. Suffused; diffuse.
  Quotations
  This limonite-colored mud is most often very suffuse and only faintly apparent.
  1912, New York State Museum, Annual Report, page 243
  Most of us mortals choose a very suffuse, dim light to have in our room, others push the switch to the maximum.
  2014, Rita Petrini, Through the Curtain of Time and Space